Border service video shows scale of illegal amber mining in Ukraine

Four zones of mining operations revealed in Ukraine's Zhytomyr and Rivne regions

Ukraine's State Border Guard Service has released a video showing at least four places of the illegal amber mining operations in western Rivne and north-western Zhytomyr regions.

Despite the regular raids by security forces, a number of arrests, and hundreds of kilograms of amber confiscated on a monthly basis, the illegal diggers carry out their work to smuggle the gem stone abroad.